PS3 OS/Interface

hah, you can put a monthly allowance budget for your kids coupled to your credit card.. nice and flexible :)
 
hey69 said:
hah, you can put a monthly allowance budget for your kids coupled to your credit card.. nice and flexible :)
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Thats definately a good feature in the light of how easy it is to buy things on the network. I dont have kids or anything so the feature wont benefit me at all, but I can see why some parents would support this, especially with the ESRB ratings.

I'l really glad how the XMB has transfered over to the ps3, theres a lot of small things I notice different from the PSP that give it a better experience. For example, when opening the Pictures menu on the psp, it takes a couple seconds for all your pictures thumbnails to show up. In the case with the PS3, everything is fast and up in no time. I like how fast it is to switch from movie clip to movie clip with minimal pauses. Im not 100% sure, but it looks like you can pause a movie clip half way, go into another movie clip, then stop and go back to the previous clip and resume where you were. All of these much smaller/minimal things definately make it easier to navigate.

It's not really surprising that these things would be improved, but much appreciated.
 
I think Hey69 may have mentioned it in another thread, but It hasnt been posted here AFAIK. Will be interesting to see what new info comes out of it when it's updated. I'm really interested in knowing more about the friends menu, as it hasnt been gone into detail as much as the other menus.

Also worth noting, that in the ign demo video that they will go further into it later on the IGN Weekly show, and that GameSpot will have a dedicated 'On the Spot' show later today on the PS3 itself when they receive their debug unit today.
 
Bad_Boy said:
4 minute demo on the XMB from IGN
http://media.ps3.ign.com/articles/743/743854/vids_1.html
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That was awesome! Although, the intriguing thing for me was when he mentioned the negatives, are those actually suggestions, because the photos on which they appear look like they could use some tweaking. I think it does more than "they probably did it because it looks cool", maybe there is a way to change the look on the fly...original or b/w or sepia or antique.

Either way, I really like the interface.
 
ban25 said:
One question here is what kind of FS support we will see for these disks. Will it be FAT only? Maybe there will be support for something like ext[2-3]fs...
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I'd be surprised if other filesystems, especially linux ones, were supported.. Wearing my 'I am not a lawyer' hat (complete with my fetching 'I have no insider information on this issue' sweater), I would have thought that there may be GPL issues integrating that kind of stuff into the core of the OS.

Dean
 
My worry is fragmentation of data across the HDD.

I'm sure Sony will provide defrag tools and rename them something more "personal" to make it less PC-y. Something like "HDD medicine". Push the button and get an explanation of how this "magic thing" will make your PS3 a bit faster and generally "better"...
 
london-boy said:
My worry is fragmentation of data across the HDD.

I'm sure Sony will provide defrag tools and rename them something more "personal" to make it less PC-y. Something like "HDD medicine". Push the button and get an explanation of how this "magic thing" will make your PS3 a bit faster and generally "better"...
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Does the 360 have tools like that?
 
london-boy said:
My worry is fragmentation of data across the HDD.

I'm sure Sony will provide defrag tools and rename them something more "personal" to make it less PC-y. Something like "HDD medicine". Push the button and get an explanation of how this "magic thing" will make your PS3 a bit faster and generally "better"...
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I would imagine, it would defrag on the fly/in the background. There are some pc programs which defrags in the background, so you don't need to run a separate program to carry out the task, so I can't imagine it would be too difficult for them to create something to do that.
 
I love that slideshow with the pictures being thrown down. I can't wait to get my PS3 and upload my pictures and impress my girl with that slideshow.

I'll probably play a little R. Kelly for background music on the PS3 too at the sametime to ummmm you set the mood. ;)
 
Thanks rendezvous, the 2nd one is new to me.
Downloading it, gonna go watch. :)

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little tid bits i gathered...
-seems theres 'send image' or 'send avatar' in the chat settings. did not know of that before.
-camera menu didnt really specify a eyetoy, so im guessing any usb camera may work?
-nice to see it shows what game your buddy is playing
-turning on and off notification messages
-the build he was using was 0.98 or 0.96 firmware, couldnt quite make it out the number
-"restore ps3 system" setting seems interesting, but he skipped over it
-next psp firmware will enable youtube video watching
-screensaver can be set at different timed intervals, lowest being 10 minutes i think
-only can send txt messages, but voice and video chat are enabled when you are chatting live (but he mentioned thats a feature that could be upgraded later)
-some friends list settings (couldnt make them out); account management, profile, auto sign off/on, set away, start new chat, etc.
-folding@home seems available as a download, but down the line they plan on give it away free on discs

thanks again for the video link :)
 
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IGN tested some accessories...
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/743/743894p1.html

eyetoy working fine :)
The first device we tried was the original EyeToy. After plugging it in, its power light came on but the PlayStation 3 didn't prompt us in any way. Heading into the System Settings menu and then its Accessory Options sub-menu, we found a Test Camera option. Happily, we soon saw ourselves smiling back at us in our HD screen via the EyeToy's CCD sensor.
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as expected, no 360 accessories (camera, controller) worked. but as a note, this was a debug unit, so the stuff that didnt work that is expected to work (like the psp, and memory sticks), should work fine in the retail unit.

They also tried the ps3 controller on a pc
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/743/743976p1.html
it connected but seems to need some drivers, or maybe a bluetooth dongle.
 
Turns out PS3 will upscale DVD movies afterall, at least according to Peter Dille:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/the-engadget-interview-peter-dille-sony-computer-entertainment/

Because, that's something that actually kind of turned some heads is when Microsoft announced 1080p support. They also announced that they were going to be adding DVD playback upscaling to 1080p, which is kind of something that is more or less unheard of in the consumer DVD playback market.

Right, so I guess from a Blu-ray perspective, Blu-ray movies are obviously 1080p capable; the Blu-ray player will upscale DVDs -- your question's about why not PS1 and PS2 games?

So you're saying the PlayStation 3 will upscale DVDs to 1080p?

Yes. Oh, yes.

Okay.

That's part and parcel of the Blu-ray technology. I thought you were questioning about the PlayStation game aspect.

Yeah, this is also about PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games that are going to be played on the console.

Yeah, I don't know the answer to that, as I said. I thought that's what you're asking. Blu-ray does upscale the DVD movie experience. I'd have to check on the PlayStation -- we can get back to you on that.
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Phew!
 
one said:
Quiet PS3 in game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97PmGjkwxU0
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Great video. Whatever people say, it's undeniable that Sony have produced a very very impressive piece of hardware.
As they say, it's all in the little details, and quietness was one of those non-major things that do make a difference in the overall presentation of a quality piece of machinery.

Vertical position looks MUCH better than the horizontal i have to admit.
 
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